The US Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo will travel to Durham, North Carolina, to announce the launch of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Internet for All initiative, which will invest $45 billion to provide affordable, reliable, high-speed internet to all Americans by the end of the decade.


The initiative will be managed and implemented by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the United States Department of Commerce (NTIA).

“You simply cannot participate in the economy in the twenty-first century if you do not have access to reliable, affordable high-speed internet,” Secretary Raimondo said. “As a result of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, Americans across the country will no longer be hampered by a lack of high-speed internet access.” We will ensure that every American has access to technologies that enable

The programs will construct internet infrastructure, teach digital skills, and provide necessary technology to ensure that everyone in America, including communities of color, rural communities, and older Americans, has the access and skills needed to fully participate in today’s society.

“The resources in President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Act will enable us to bring broadband infrastructure to every corner of our country, make service affordable for everyone, and ensure users have the devices and digital skills they require,” said Don Graves, Deputy Secretary of Commerce. “However, we need a whole-of-government and whole-of-nation approach to succeed – everyone who has a stake in our connected future should get involved now.”

“Generations before us built interstate highways and brought electricity to rural America,” Alan Davidson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, said. “The task of our generation is to connect all Americans online.” Today, NTIA is launching major new programs to promote Internet access and adoption, ensuring that everyone in America has a chance to thrive in the modern economy.”

To be eligible for the BEAD Program, states and other eligible entities must submit a letter of intent and a budget for planning funds, which will unlock $5 million in planning funds and allow states to begin developing their five-year action plan. Dedicated NTIA staff will provide direct support to each state throughout the process. Each participating state is guaranteed a minimum $100 million allocation, with additional funding determined based on the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming coverage maps.

The Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program will provide grants to eligible entities on a technology-neutral, competitive basis for the construction, improvement, or acquisition of middle-mile infrastructure. The State Digital Equity Planning Grant Program, which was launched today, is the first step in a series of Digital Equity Act steps that will invest $1.5 billion to increase adoption and use, such as digital literacy training, for those who need it the most, including communities of color, rural communities, and older Americans.

SOURCE:https://brandspurng.com/2022/05/17/u-s-launches-45-billion-internet-for-all/

Nothing is free even in Freetown. The mark of the beast can only work where there is an internet coverage.

tinubu would do better

I love bidden

No more unnecessary war and wasting money on ungrateful countries

America taxpayers dollars goes to American infrastructural deficit and welfare

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Good means for them to monitor people

What's America interest in this

There is nothing free, once are using the free internet, you are exposed. American can easily get ur data's . Is just away of intruding into someone privacy.

Amazing

JustExposeIt:
Nothing is free even in Freetown. The mark of the beast can only work where there is an internet coverage.

at your age, you still buy the story of mark of the beast, you will advise your children sha

F

Free? In capitalist America? LMAO.

FERNANDEZISBACK:


Pls keep mute if you are clueless..if you have no idea just keep mute and stop bringing your religion disgusting nonsense here..human are developing you AFRICANS still live in the Stone age..
Why not take the so called mark of the beast(if true) and make life easy for you..stop believing nonsense from the Bible book..it's all made up BS..

Everything is Mark of the beast to them, many of them still refuse to take the vaccine because of foolishness. Remember when they thought 5g was the cause of corona virus?

Very confused human beings.

Don't be offended....

For us wey no go school... Are they trying to say 1000naira can get us 20GB..? I'm excited already

please help a bro break that Grammer down

JustExposeIt:
Nothing is free even in Freetown. The mark of the beast can only work where there is an internet coverage.

Well said.

Kaduna bandits will stop the projects

rriiccaarrddoo:
There is nothing free, once are using the free internet, you are exposed. American can easily get ur data' . Is just away of intruding into someone privacy.

Whether it's free or not, your data is still exposed.

So, what's your point?

flejnr2:
tinubu would do better

But they plan on giving Ukraine 44 billion dollars

Mooh247:




I love bidden

No more unnecessary war and wasting money on ungrateful countries

America taxpayers dollars goes to American infrastructural deficit and welfare

.

speedeinstein:
But they plan on giving Ukraine 44 billion dollars

Cash or Military hardware valued at 44 billion?

If they had gone to Ukraine to fight like they did in Iraq, Libya, and Afghanistan then they would have spent far more than 44 billion

rriiccaarrddoo:
There is nothing free, once are using the free internet, you are exposed. American can easily get ur data's . Is just away of intruding into someone privacy.

if this is the case then go back to Stone age and live under the rocks where the internet does not have coverage,clown

Mooh247:




I love bidden

No more unnecessary war and wasting money on ungrateful countries

America taxpayers dollars goes to American infrastructural deficit and welfare

.

And how about the 40 billion dollars "aid package" to Ukraine?

This people like to dey throway money sha, instead of biden to find a solution to
curb their rising inflation, na internet wey him sabi

The US is an embodiment of everything free.

It might struggle because of the evil forces in the opposition but don't take the US for granted on issues of freedom and human rights

JustExposeIt:
Nothing is free even in Freetown. The mark of the beast can only work where there is an internet coverage.

Lolzzzzz

Are you afraid

Onariii:
This people like to dey throway money sha, instead of biden to find a solution to
curb their rising inflation, na internet wey him sabi

Rising inflation.

Don't you think free internet will reduce some cost?

So people think the "all" means the whole world.


The US Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo will travel to Durham, North Carolina, to announce the launch of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Internet for All initiative, which will invest $45 billion to provide affordable, reliable, high-speed internet to all Americans by the end of the decade

US, 'afúnni ní óókan fi gba eédégbàá.' she gives you a goat leg to latter demand a full human in return.